Font CategoriesBasic | Sans Serif

Download free Bedstead font - Ben Harris

(0 vote)
Download free Bedstead font free for Personal Use. Style list: bedstead-bold.otf, bedstead-boldcondensed.otf, bedstead-boldextended.otf, bedstead-boldextracondensed.otf, bedstead-boldsemicondensed.otf, bedstead-boldultracondensed.otf, bedstead-condensed.otf, bedstead-extended.otf, bedstead-extracondensed.otf, bedstead-semicondensed.otf, bedstead-ultracondensed.otf, bedstead.otf,
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font
  • Bedstead font

About Bedstead font

Bedstead is a family of outline fonts based on the characters produced by the Mullard SAA5050 series of Teletext Character Generators. The SAA5050 is familiar to those of a certain age as the chip that produced the MODE 7 display on the BBC Microcomputer. It generates characters from a 5 × 9 pixel matrix, smoothing diagonal lines to produce an interlaced 10 × 18 matrix for each character. Bedstead extends that algorithm to continuity, converting a 5 × 9 pixel grid into an outline with smooth diagonals.

Bedstead includes all the character designs from the SAA5050 and its various sister chips, including Cyrillic and Hebrew alphabets. It also has a large number of custom-designed glyphs, all of them of course based on the same 5 × 9 pixel grid.

Styles

Bedstead is available in six widths. The standard version of Bedstead is based on a square pixel grid. This is good for displays with square pixels, but not entirely faithful to the SAA5050. There is a second version, Bedstead Extended, that more accurately reflects the character shapes generated by an SAA5050 driving a 576i display.

To simulate teletext double-height mode, Bedstead and Bedstead Extended each has a half-width version, Bedstead Ultra Condensed and Bedstead Extra Condensed respectively. Bedstead Condensed and Bedstead Semi Condensed provide intermediate widths.

Each width also comes in a bold variant based on the idea of a variant SAA5050 that could advance its rising edges by one output pixel, thickening the vertical and diagonal lines.

Mosaic Graphics

Bedstead includes all of the teletext mosaic graphics characters available from the SAA5050. These are encoded at the standard code points defined by Unicode. Separated graphics are available using an OpenType feature. The mosaic graphics characters are also encoded in the Private Use area between U+EE00 and U+EE7F, in the same arrangement as is used by ZVBI.

Generation

The outline version of Bedstead is generated by an ISO C program which emits a Spline Font Database file for use with FontForge, which can convert it into most reasonable font formats. The source code is included in the full release of Bedstead available from its Web site.

Copyright

The program that generates Bedstead and all of the newly-designed glyphs have been released into the public domain.

I believe that the original SAA5050 bitmap font is essentially in the public domain in the United Kingdom as a result of Section 55 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as applied by subparagraph 14(5) of Schedule 1. I’m not a lawyer, though, so this may well be wrong.

Download font

Free for Personal Use

This fonts are authors' property, and are either shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the archives or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt. If no author/licence is indicated that's because we don't have information, that doesn't mean it's free.

AA Aa aa
  • bedstead-bold.otf
    Bedstead Bold font | bedstead-bold.otf
  • bedstead-boldcondensed.otf
    Bedstead Condensed Bold font | bedstead-boldcondensed.otf
  • bedstead-boldextended.otf
    Bedstead Extended Bold font | bedstead-boldextended.otf
  • bedstead-boldextracondensed.otf
    Bedstead Extra Condensed Bold font | bedstead-boldextracondensed.otf
  • bedstead-boldsemicondensed.otf
    Bedstead Semi Condensed Bold font | bedstead-boldsemicondensed.otf
  • bedstead-boldultracondensed.otf
    Bedstead Ultra Condensed Bold font | bedstead-boldultracondensed.otf
  • bedstead-condensed.otf
    Bedstead Condensed Regular font | bedstead-condensed.otf
  • bedstead-extended.otf
    Bedstead Extended Regular font | bedstead-extended.otf
  • bedstead-extracondensed.otf
    Bedstead Extra Condensed Regular font | bedstead-extracondensed.otf
  • bedstead-semicondensed.otf
    Bedstead Semi Condensed Regular font | bedstead-semicondensed.otf
  • bedstead-ultracondensed.otf
    Bedstead Ultra Condensed Regular font | bedstead-ultracondensed.otf
  • bedstead.otf
    Bedstead Regular font | bedstead.otf

Bedstead Bold | bedstead-bold.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead
  • Font subfamily identification: Bold
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Bold : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Bold
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-Bold

Bedstead Condensed Bold | bedstead-boldcondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Bold
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Bold Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Bold Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-BoldCondensed

Bedstead Extended Bold | bedstead-boldextended.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Extended
  • Font subfamily identification: Bold
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Bold Extended : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Bold Extended
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-BoldExtended

Bedstead Extra Condensed Bold | bedstead-boldextracondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Extra Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Bold
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Bold Extra Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Bold Extra Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-BoldExtraCondensed

Bedstead Semi Condensed Bold | bedstead-boldsemicondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Semi Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Bold
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Bold Semi Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Bold Semi Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-BoldSemiCondensed

Bedstead Ultra Condensed Bold | bedstead-boldultracondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Ultra Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Bold
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Bold Ultra Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Bold Ultra Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-BoldUltraCondensed

Bedstead Condensed Regular | bedstead-condensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-Condensed

Bedstead Extended Regular | bedstead-extended.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Extended
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Extended : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Extended
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-Extended

Bedstead Extra Condensed Regular | bedstead-extracondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Extra Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Extra Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Extra Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-ExtraCondensed

Bedstead Semi Condensed Regular | bedstead-semicondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Semi Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Semi Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Semi Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-SemiCondensed

Bedstead Ultra Condensed Regular | bedstead-ultracondensed.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead Ultra Condensed
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead Ultra Condensed : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead Ultra Condensed
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead-UltraCondensed

Bedstead Regular | bedstead.otf

  • Font family: Bedstead
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: FontForge 2.0 : Bedstead : 27-2-2022
  • Full font name: Bedstead
  • Version: Version 002.004
  • Postscript font name: Bedstead

Comments (0)

no-avatar
Please login!

    Lastest update